Here is a printing issue that I have had in 4.1.2, 4.1.3, and now in the 4.2 beta. I reported it to PowerMail support back in 4.1.2.
I am using a Powerbook 1400 running Mac OS 9.1, with my modem in a PCMCIA slot, and an Epson Stylus 740 printer hooked up to the combined Printer/ Modem port. When I launch PowerMail, 'garbage' data gets sent to my printer. Sometimes, the printer just indicates that it has received data by showing an error light blinking. At other times, it feeds a sheet of paper and starts to print seemingly random characters. I am not sure, but it also appears that PowerMail sometimes continues to send data to the printer/modem port while I am using it. If I try to print an email message, most of the time I can't - I get a message that the printer port is in use, even though PowerMail is the only application running, or I get a message that the printer is not responding. I get the former if I have managed to clear the printer by manually feeding paper and then ejecting it (at which point it prints some garbage). I get the latter if I have not managed to clear the error. Note that in PowerMail 4.2 I have been unable to clear the errors at all. It appears to be continuously sending some sort of data to the printer My workaround at the moment is to (try to remember to) keep my printer turned off until I need to print from any application. When using PowerMail, I save the message to be printed as a text file and print it from another application after quitting PowerMail. I also can't print from any other application while PowerMail is running. Anybody else experience anything like this? Any suggestions? -- Don V. Zahniser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
